Author: Clare at CatsEatDogs

Photo a Day February 2015

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As the year rolls by, I am taking a photo a day following the prompts from Fat Mum Slim.  Here is February. 1. On My Plate.  Not quite a plate I know, but a few peanuts as we await lunch. 2. Mail.  Catalogue browsing. 3. Water. As an melting icicle. 4. Reward.  Ginger cookies. 5. Something Blue. My diary. 6. Makes Me Smile. I started this book, but didn’t finish it! 7. Stripes. 8. In my Bag.  Just been to an Estate Sale and found some treasure which came home in my bag. 9. Energy. 10. This Inspires Me.  Stuff on my book shelf. 11. On the Wall. 12. Pointy. Vintage needles and pins. 13. Temptation. 14. Love.   I drew stamps and stamped inside them! 15. Spot.  Notebook. 16. From Where I Stand. 17. Routine.  Off to the gym. 18. Bedside. 19. Fresh. 20. This is so me!  Little doll in a jar with washi tape, sits on my table. 21. Matching. 22. Macro. Soaked black beans gone purple.  23. Fix.  Got some reading glasses for …

‘I like’ Fridays. Yoga Special

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    This week I am going to dedicate ‘I like’ Friday’s post to yoga, because I like yoga. I really shouldn’t like it because I am more of a cardio kinda gal who doesn’t feel like the exercise was even worth it unless I am sweaty and stinky by the end. This is probably why after all these years I am still terrible at yoga. I always need to pee about half way through the class. Really badly. By the last ‘corpse’ pose, you know the one where you are suppose to relax (not nap) and let thoughts come and then go. The very same pose where I decide which bathroom is nearest and whether I have the ingredients to make a green chili tonight (just down the corridor and yes, in case you are interested). My hips complain and creak even when we sit in Easy pose, sitting legs crossed is neither comfortable nor easy for my cranky hips. No amount of folded blankets help either, unless I am encased in them, that might …

Girl Fifteen Letters – a Hand Lettering Challenge for March.

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Do you always look at the fabulous hand lettering which seems to be everywhere at the minute and think, I wonder if I can do that? I can write the letters just fine, why not add my own pzazz?! Well, I have been thinking this for far too long, so on the back of my immensly enjoyable month taking part in Tinkersketch, I decided that in March I am going to write and draw letters every day. Just for a few minutes or as long as the mood takes me, no pressure. I have no experience in creating hand lettering, I borrowed ‘Draw Your Own Alphabets’ by Tony Seddon from the library and I bought ‘Hand Lettering Ledger’ by Mary Kate McDevitt.   I have signed up for the lettering course at Made Vibrant and I hung onto Lisa Congdon‘s every word in her Line Drawing class at Creative Bug in which she teaches a lesson on lettering. That all said, I really haven’t had a go, I have flicked through the books and watched the first videos of the …

Weekly Photos 8/52 2015

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1. It has been a freezing cold week.  All furry scarves are being deployed! 2. I drew my first postcard this week and mailed it off to the UK. 3. Our vintage globe. 4. Resting toy soldiers. 5. Detail from a building in the Japanese Garden, part of the Missouri Botanical Gardens.  It was freezing! 6. One of the sheep (Moutons sculpture) at the Missouri Botanical Gardens. 7. Canada Geese take a break on the lake at the Gardens. 8. Waterfalls seem more dramatic when it is super chilly out! 9. Cactus close up in the greenhouse. 10. Ices Plain and Fancy where they make ice cream with liquid nitrogen as you order.  So cool (ha, see what I did there!).  I had the coffee soft serve and it was fab. A few more photos this week, some taken with my Canon Rebel and some on my iPhone 6. The sun is out today which is a wonderful thing although it is still below freezing.  I am going to plant some chili pepper seeds to …

Six Word Saturday

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  We had a little drop of snow in the night which settled ontop of the icy leftovers of the last snowfall.  The day is getting up above freezing temperatures so the snow is slowly dripping away. For this weeks photo I added text with the Phonto app. Got a Six Word Saturday?  Share here or over on Instagram #sixwordsaturday. Happy Weekend x

‘I like’ Fridays.

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This week I am liking lots of things, the arctic weather we are having is not one of them! Check out this fab post about making your very own font from Tiny Rotten Peanuts.  I am going to give this a go this weekend. There are some good t shirts for Red Nose Day this year, my Mum is sending me the Matthew Williamson ‘Do my Feathers Look Big in This?’  one, because I am spoiled! I am still having a blast with the Tinkersketch challenge, I might just finish the month! There is a plan in my brain to do my own personal challenge through March – a hand lettering practice.  You should join in too!  More info next week (when I have figured it out…) The book I am reading is a really good one – Ella and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper. I have been obsessively making this bread which just needs throwing together the night before.  Perfect for weekend breakfast. What have you been liking this week?  Lots …

Through the Lens Thursday #8 Twisted

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        This week has been freezing cold and snowy, so I ran out to find something twisty in the back garden.  The wintery branches and vines were ideal.  My neighbour’s garage is blue which made a great background. I have a new lens on my Canon Rebel xs 1000D,  (Canon 50mm f/1.4 fixed) which gives a lovely depth of field and I am super happy with it.  It is a whole new learning curve for me as I get used to the different perspective through the lens and I learn to focus in the correct place for the photograph I want. I did learn that I do better with this lens when I am using manual focus instead of auto focus.  Always learning, always photographing. I found this post at A Beautiful Mess very helpful in learning about which lens to choose. Read all about Through The Lens Thursday here. Happy Thursday, I hope it is warm with you!    

The Diaries of a Teenage Me.

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I kept a diary from when I was 13 years old until my thirties and sparodically to the present day. I planned a post this week about how my eldest is now 13 and how I have a record of my teens in the form of my diaries. Well, I am sorry to disappoint, but it was too horrendous. Looking back on my 13-14 year old self captured for all eternity in the pages of an Alice in Wonderland Secret Diary (with a lock), it was too awful. I can hardly bear to read the teenage angst and general nonsense  I wrote. Just awful. Only a few years from the first entries when I was about 15 or 16, it became a mite more readable for me, and I found lots of stuff I could not remember, not even when I read it, no recollection of a trip or an encounter with another person.  I thought reading about an event would take me right back to it (thankfully not in many cases!).  I realise that …